Switching off street lights at night does not increase car crashes and crimehttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0715/290715-switching-off-street-lighting Reduced street lighting in England and Wales is not
associated with road traffic collisions or crime, according to research by UCL and the London School
of Hygiene &amp; Tropical Medicine. RSS FeedRebecca L Caygill2015-07-29T10:05:29ZUCL digital research facility gets go-aheadhttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0715/200715-new-digital-economy-centre The Government has committed to investing £4 million in a
new facility at UCL to help policymakers develop ways of evening out the UK’s regional
economic divides. This figure is matched by an additional £5.6 million of
institutional funding. RSS FeedRebecca L Caygill2015-07-20T12:03:22ZUCL Academy students become environmental engineershttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0615/250615-ucl-academy-environmental-engineering144 Year 7 students at UCL Academy have been learning about the
waste-energy-food cycle as part of a six-week environmental engineering educational
programme led by Dr Aiduan Borrion (UCL Civil, Environmental &amp; Geomatic Engineering), in the first major collaboration between UCL
Engineering and UCL Academy.RSS FeedRuth Metcalfe2015-06-25T13:23:28ZClimate change threatens to undermine the last half century of health gainshttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0615/230615-lancet-commission-climate-change The threat to human health from climate change is so great
that it could undermine the last fifty years of gains in development and global
health, according to a major new UCL-led Commission, published in The Lancet. RSS FeedHarry C Dayantis2015-06-23T09:47:26ZTracking exploding Lithium-ion batteries in real-timehttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0415/280415_Tracking-exploding-Lithium-ion-batteries What happens when lithium-ion batteries overheat and explode
has been tracked inside and out for the first time by a UCL-led team using
sophisticated 3D imaging.RSS FeedRebecca L Caygill2015-04-28T15:10:55ZUniSA and UCL forge new partnership to ignite future industrieshttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0415/270415-unisa-ucl-partnership The University of South Australia
(UniSA) and UCL have today signed a partnership
agreement committing the two
institutions to work together to develop teaching and research in South
Australia in fields that include minerals processing, advanced manufacturing,
sustainable future energy production and protection, and care of the
environment. RSS FeedSiobhan Pipa2015-04-27T10:05:45ZProfessor Peter Kirstein wins 2015 Marconi Society Prizehttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0415/100415_Kirstein Professor Peter Kirstein, chair of Computer Communications
Systems (UCL Engineering Sciences), has been awarded the prestigious 2015
Marconi Society Prize for his ‘tireless advocacy and pioneering technical
contributions to computer networking which helped establish and expand the
Internet in Europe and many other parts of the world.’RSS FeedRebecca L Caygill2015-04-10T15:42:59ZHIV spreads like internet malware and should be treated earlierhttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0415/020415-HIV-internet-malware-early-treatment A new model for HIV progression finds that it spreads in a similar way to
some computer worms and predicts that early treatment is key to staving off
AIDS.RSS FeedHarry C Dayantis2015-04-08T09:48:49ZUCL alumna awarded Professional Achievement Award by British Councilhttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0315/040315-professional-achievement-award Tina Liu (UCL Centre for Transport Studies, 2010) has been announced
as the winner of this year’s Professional Achievement Award in the Education UK
Alumni Awards for China run by the British Council. RSS FeedSiobhan Pipa2015-03-04T16:43:33ZUCL researchers take their research to parliamenthttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0315/040315-parliament-research Jason Hunt (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory) has been
awarded the Bronze medal in Physics for his research poster presented at this
year’s SET for Britain competition. RSS FeedSiobhan Pipa2015-03-04T16:27:44ZYale UCL Poetry competition announces winners for 2014http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0215/170215-yale-ucl-poetry The winners of the 2014 Yale UCL Medical and Engineering
Students’ Poetry Competition have been announced. RSS FeedSiobhan Pipa2015-02-17T16:12:57ZNew technique doubles the distance of optical fibre communicationshttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0215/030215-double-distance-fibre-optic-cables A new way to process fibre optic signals has been demonstrated
by UCL researchers, which could double the distance at which data travels
error-free through transoceanic sub-marine cables.RSS FeedHarry C Dayantis2015-02-03T10:00:24ZUCL rated top UK
university by research strength in the REF2014http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1214/181214-ucl-results-refRSS FeedRuth Metcalfe2014-12-18T00:00:10ZResearch Images as Art/Art Images as Research: winners announcedhttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1214/121214-research-images A striking image demonstrating the science behind a flock of
starlings in flight has been announced as the winner of this year’s Research
Images as Art/Art Images as Research competition, run by the UCL Doctoral School.RSS FeedSiobhan Pipa2014-12-12T13:06:41ZEPICentre release new Japan Tsunami model with Willis Re & Tohoku Universityhttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1214/051214-japan-tsunami-model Researchers at the EPICentre
Research Group, a multidisciplinary research group based in UCL Civil,
Environmental &amp; Geomatic Engineering (CEGE) that investigates risk to
society and infrastructure from earthquakes and other natural hazards, have
released a new Japan Tsunami model to advance the industry’s understanding of
catastrophic tsunami losses. RSS FeedSiobhan Pipa2014-12-05T14:46:31ZUK cities spend £23 million annually on IThttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1114/191114-cities-IT A new report by
UCL and Arup reveals that UK city authorities spend an average of £23 million a year each on IT, which
is 6% of their total expenditure. RSS FeedRebecca L Caygill2014-11-19T14:30:00ZNew i-sense collaboration to improve monitoring of UK flu hotspotshttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1114/191114-i-sense-flusurvey An exciting new project to help
monitor the spread of flu in the UK more accurately and earlier than ever
before has been funded by i-sense, an £11m EPSRC-funded collaboration led by
UCL. RSS FeedRebecca L Caygill2014-11-19T09:49:44ZVirtual reality helps people to comfort and accept themselveshttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1114/121114_virtual-reality Self-compassion can be learned using avatars in an immersive virtual reality,
finds new research led by UCL. This innovative approach reduced
self-criticism and increased self-compassion and feelings of contentment
in naturally self-critical individuals. The scientists behind the
MRC-funded study say it could be applied to treat a range of clinical
conditions including depression. RSS FeedRebecca L Caygill2014-11-13T13:22:52ZChanging London’s cycling infrastructure will improve safetyhttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1114/071114_cycling_infrastructure London and other cities in Britain could be made safer for cyclists
finds a study by researchers at UCL and Loughborough University . The report
commissioned by Transport for London (TfL), makes recommendations which could
be implemented using £913 million earmarked by London’s Mayor Boris Johnson to
improve cycle safety in the capital and increase the number of cyclists
four-fold by 2026, say the scientists behind the study. RSS FeedRebecca L Caygill2014-11-07T16:37:58ZPublishers address concerns on ‘total cost of ownership’ of e-resourceshttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1014/291014-publishers-open-access UCL welcomes the news that two major academic publishers are tackling the issue of subscription costs and the level of article-processing charges (APCs). RSS FeedNicholas W Tyndale2014-10-29T17:25:16ZNew web privacy system could revolutionise the safety of surfinghttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1014/061014_COWL Scientists
from UCL, Stanford Engineering, Google, Chalmers and Mozilla Research have built
a new system that protects Internet users’ privacy whilst increasing the
flexibility for web developers to build web applications that combine data from
different web sites, dramatically improving the safety of surfing the web. RSS FeedRebecca L Caygill2014-10-06T08:55:42ZRenewable fossil fuel alternative made using bacteriahttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0914/020914-propane In a new
study published in the journal Nature Communications , researchers have engineered the
harmless gut bacteria Escherichia coli (E. coli) to
generate renewable propane. RSS FeedRebecca L Caygill2014-09-02T15:58:58ZStudy reveals scale of the sexual exploitation of boyshttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0814/270814-sexual-exploitation-of-boys The sexual exploitation of boys and young men is a
much bigger problem than previously thought according to a landmark study
released today. RSS FeedRebecca L Caygill2014-08-27T09:52:53ZUCL-JDF Summer School – reinventing the wheelchairhttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0814/15082014-ucl-jdf-summer-school-wheelchair-redesign In July, UCL
Engineering and UCL Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (CEGE) teamed
up with the James Dyson Foundation to create an innovative week-long summer
school.RSS FeedRuth Metcalfe2014-08-15T11:19:22ZNational Student Survey: improvement in student satisfactionhttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0814/120814-national-student-survey-results-uclStudent satisfaction at UCL has risen by 2%, according to the latest
National Student Survey (NSS) results. RSS FeedRuth Metcalfe2014-08-12T09:31:46Z